Posted Mar-26-2012 By

mikedelta12

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This machine is very expensive at 125m a copy, but it does add an amazing capibility to the LHA, LHD fleet. It in effect adds 10 more aircraft carriers to the fleet! They'll have to redesignate assault ships. Maybe call them LCV's?

Posted Mar-26-2012 By

Demonsouls

Posted Mar-26-2012 By

w0lf1o

they are so expensive .. well another reason...is when we were building a mock-up so they could raise it out of a roof and shoot radar at it to check the cross section..i would be laying up carbon fiber and i swear 20-30 ppl would stand there and watch me LOL and tell me how to do it..so i would make them leave by going ..hey can you help me LOL.
Also we took a 55 gallon barrel full of cement with a special fitting and set it on its nose with a crane just to see how far it deflected. just doingMore.. what they told me to do :-)
but your right . very very awesome jetsLess..

Posted Mar-26-2012 By

DEADBEEF

@DEADBEEF
Do you know of any VTOL capable of landing in extreme foul weather?

No fighter aircraft has a full weapons load 'bringback', not even CATOBAR aircraft! Even land based fighters dont have full bringback! Thats why a typical AG mission load is usually less than half of the maximum load.

True the MiG29 and Su27 are sexy, for 80s technology! Trying to compare the Harrier to the f-35 is just laughable! The '35 is low-observable, outperformes the Harrier by any and all metrics! It is capMore..able of double the speed for gods sake! Its an actual fighter, not a lightweight bomb truck!Less..